This is an analysis of the poem Lamps Burn In Every House that begins with:
Lamps burn in every house,
O blind one! and you cannot see them....
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: abcdXdX cX b aXdX eeX
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 7,2,1,4,3,
- Closest metre: trochaic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
- Сlosest stanza type: tercets
- Guessed form: unknown form
- Metre: 1101001 111111010 11111100010 11111010010101 101001101 101001 0011010111110101 01110101 1101011010101 110111110011011 010110101 1010010001 010110010011 1111101010 1111100111110 10101001 101111101
- Amount of stanzas: 5
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 148
- Average number of words per stanza: 29
- Amount of lines: 17
- Average number of symbols per line: 43 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 9
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, you, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word there is repeated.
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